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I am completely confused by this. Here's what their getting started guide looks like: The basics of using Polymer are simple: 1. Load platform.js to po

by gcr 13y ago

I am completely confused by this. Here's what their getting started guide looks like: The basics of using Polymer are simple: 1. Load platform.js to polyfill missing platform features, such as Shadow DOM and HTML Imports. ... What does "polyfill" mean? What is "Shadow DOM" and "HTML Imports", and how does it benefit me as a web developer? It would help if the front page had something like this, but with blanks filled in: "Polymer helps the web developer to ____ more [easily|quickly|reliably] than ____. This is what doing ___ looked like before: _____; this is what it looks like with Polymer: ____"

dragonwriter 13y ago
> What does "polyfill" mean? What is "Shadow DOM" and "HTML Imports", and how does it benefit me as a web developer? Polymer is a pre-alpha framework with a warning on every page that "only the daring need apply." If you don't know what things Shadow DOM and HTML Imports are (and can't be bothered to click the links under "Platform technologies" for those things"), you probably aren't in the audience Polymer is addressing right now. > It would help if the front page had something like this, but with blanks filled in: "Polymer helps the web developer to ____ more [easily|quickly|reliably] than ____. This is what doing ___ looked like before: _____; this is what it looks like with Polymer: ____" It probably would, except that right now those blanks would be hard to fill out since except for the low-level infrastructure, most of it hasn't been built yet, and the concept seems mostly to be "lets see what kind of app framework we can build on top of a set of emerging standard technologies, now that we've built polyfills that let us use those technologies on current browsers that lack native support for them".
- gcr 13y ago
  Thanks for the clarification. I think I'll check back once these things solidify.

by gcr 13y ago

dragonwriter 13y ago

> What does "polyfill" mean? What is "Shadow DOM" and "HTML Imports", and how does it benefit me as a web developer? Polymer is a pre-alpha framework with a warning on every page that "only the daring need apply." If you don't know what things Shadow DOM and HTML Imports are (and can't be bothered to click the links under "Platform technologies" for those things"), you probably aren't in the audience Polymer is addressing right now. > It would help if the front page had something like this, but with blanks filled in: "Polymer helps the web developer to ____ more [easily|quickly|reliably] than ____. This is what doing ___ looked like before: _____; this is what it looks like with Polymer: ____" It probably would, except that right now those blanks would be hard to fill out since except for the low-level infrastructure, most of it hasn't been built yet, and the concept seems mostly to be "lets see what kind of app framework we can build on top of a set of emerging standard technologies, now that we've built polyfills that let us use those technologies on current browsers that lack native support for them".

gcr 13y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I think I'll check back once these things solidify.